A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it into battle during World War II.

Onoda, like many Japanese soldiers, fully embraced the principles promoted by his country's military command. Losing was inconceivable, surrender was shameful, and suicide was unimaginable.

Restoration work on a metal artifact found in Berlin, Germany, has revealed it to be an "ornately decorated" Japanese sword that possibly dates to the 17th century. The object was uncovered in the ...

NICHINAN, Miyazaki Prefecture—At the age of 99, Joseph Cursor, a former U.S. soldier who lives in Chicago, was running out of time to fulfill a long-held promise.

Volunteer searching for WWII dead in Japanese caves unearths remains of hundreds of people. Updated on: March 6, 2025 / 7:15 AM EST / AP ... Military labs identify long-fallen soldiers 02:54.

Navy pilot Arthur Hibray came back from World War II with a souvenir Japanese military rifle. But the weapon went missing shortly after his return from the war. Decades later, his son Blake Hibray ...

A new project to memorialize the 125,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII will include soil from 75 former internment sites including one in Portland. Chisao Hata joined ...

In all, 1,280 remains of Japanese war-dead, including six on Okinawa, have been identified by DNA tests since 2003, the health ministry said. The remains of around 14,000 people are stored in the ...

The mystery of the lost WWII-era Japanese military rifle Police, postal officials, nobody knows where the rifle is. Updated July 7, 2024 at 10:06 a.m. July 7, 2024.

Military scientists have identified the remains of an Illinois soldier who died during World War II at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines.

WWII officially ended when Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945. But this didn't necessarily mean the end of the World War II for some men and women. Some dismissed the news of defeat as enemy ...

ELWOOD, Ill. — Military scientists have identified the remains of an Illinois soldier who died during World War II at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines.